COC in Nizhniy Tagil canceled

16 March 2014 10:49

Victory Ceremony / COC overall 2013/14 -

FIS

The weather was better on the second day of competition in Nizhniy Tagil, instead of snowfall there was sunshine, but it was still very windy. And so also the final competition of this COC season started under difficult conditions.

After 25 jumpers the competition was interrupted for 20 minutes, then it was decided to restart the first round, that originally started at 8:00 am CET, at 12:00 pm CET.

But at 11:30 am CET the jury decided to cancel the competition due to the strong wind. At the time of the cancelation Italian Alessio De Crignis was in the lead with a jump on 127 m and 97.7 points, ahead of the two Russians Alexander Shuvalov (123 m; 91.1 points) and Ilmir Hazetdinov (121 m; 84.4 points).

Manuel Fettner of Austria won the overall title of the Continental Cup 2013/14 with a total of 803 points, followed by Nejc Dezman (731 points) and Rok Justin (689 points) of Slovenia.